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PRE – FEASIBILITY REPORT

4.7415 Hectares Hillock Mining

(Mauza Churan, Tahsil Nahan, District Sirmour)

1. Project Location: The proposed project is located in village Churan, Tehsil Nahan, District Sirmaur

in Himachal Pradesh. The proposed mining of minor minerals like Sand, Silt, Boulders, Bajri and Clay

etc project stretches over an area of 4.7415 ha.

Figure 1.1 Project Site Location

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2. Connectivity: The proposed project site is connected to important city Ambala by National

Highway – 73 and National Highway– 72 towards Southwest. It is connected to Chandigarh via

National Highway – 1 followed by National Highway– 73, towards Northwest.

To the main highway the project site is well connected by bituminous roads. The connectivity

map of project site and highway is shown in figure 1.2.

Figure 1.2: Connectivity of project site with Highways

Distances of mining site from Important Places:

Table 1.1: Important places with their respective distances

S.No Places Distance

1. Narayangarh (Haryana) by Road 8 km

2. Nahan (Sub – Division office & District Headquarter by road 25 Km

3. Shimla (State Captial) via Hamirpur by road 150 km

4. Ambala (Haryana) by Road 48 km

5. Chandigarh (Union territory) by road 70 km

6. Dehradun by road 135 km

7. Paonta Sahib 76 Km

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3. Project Features:

The proposed project is mining of minor minerals like Sand, Silt, Boulders, Bajri and Clay from

lease area comprising of partly hillock. It stretches over an area of 4.7415 ha. It is near Village

Churan, Post office Palion in Tehsil Nahan, District Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh.

The mining lease is granted for 5 years which can be further renewed for 15 years, from the date

of execution of lease deeds. The lease is granted to mine Sand, Silt, Boulders, Bajri and Clay.

The Stone and Bajri will be used in crushing unit for making angular grit. The sand, after sieved

is to be sold to construction industry.

The proposed project has geographical Coordinate for Site A:

Latitude: 30˚32’30.53” N

Longitude: 77˚8’56.84” E

Elevation: 360 m

4. Site Surrounding Features: (Adjacent)

North: There is forest area towards Northwest & Hillock. Gumti River adjacent towards

Northeast.

South: Gumti River and fallow land towards South & Southeast.

East: Gumti River 20 meters away.

West: Forest land and hillocks.

Figure1.3. Site surrounding features

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Site Surrounding features within 15 km radius from project boundary:

Figure 1.4: Surrounding Feature within 15 km from project Boundary

Site Surrounding Feature:

1 Forest area:

a) Gumti Sambhalwa Reserve Forest – 3 km towards Northeast

b) Bhogpur Kotla Reserve Forest – 2.5 km towards East

c) Andheri Gurudwara Reserve Forest – 4.1 km towards Northeast

d) Trilokpur Reserve Forest – 6.5 km towards Northwest.

2 Water Courses

Gumti Nadi river bed is about 20 meter towards east. Other river in study area are Run

Nadi – 2.8 km towards east, Trilpkpur Nadi – 4.5 km towards east, Ujjal Nadi – 1.2 km

towards South and Begna Nadi – 3.4 km towards west.

3 Inter State boundary is about 0.65 km towards South.

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4 Densely Populated are like Ujjan Majri – 0.62 km towards South, Churan – 0.25 km

towards East, Sambhalwa – 1.6 km towards Southwest, Khanpur Rajputan – 2.8 km

towards Southeast, Firozpur – 1.9 km towards Southeast, Mirzapur – 3.1 km towards east

and Bhandariwala – 5.2 km towards southeast.

5. Landuse of the area:

The landuse within 5 km radius of the mining lease are comprise of Agricultural land,

Agricultural fallow land, Dry river bed, Settlements, barren land etc. Area wise details of

the land use within 5 km of the project boundary is given in Table 1.2

Table 1.2: Land use within 5 km from project boundary

Class Area(sqkm)

Agricultural land 17.67

Agri. Fallow land 23.48

Dry river bed 4.90

Settlement 0.92

Vegetation 28.47

Barren land 3.49

Total 78.93

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Figure 1.5: Land use within 5 km from project Boundary

6. Contour of the Study area The contour of the project site ranges between 355m to 362 meter above mean sea level

(msl)

The contour of the study area within 2 km from the project site ranges between 340 to 490 meters above msl.

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Figure 1.6: Contour within 2 km from project boundary

7. Digital Elevation model (DEM)

Digital Elevation models show that the project lies in the range of 359 to 382 meter.

Figure 1.7: Digital Elevation Model within 5 km from project boundary

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8. Mining Procedure:

The mining of mineral in the proposed project site will be carried out in semi –

mechanized way. The mining activity will be carried out during day time from 9:00 A.M

to 6:00 PM. About 8 -9 people will be engaged in mining and that to from the nearby

villages. No power and D.G set will be installed within the site or in close proximity. The

total water requirement for drinking, washing will be about 300 lit/day. The water will be

supplied in water tanks or water container by the project proponent.

Instruments like iron pan, shovel, hoe and pickaxe will be used for manual mining. For

the safety of the labors steel tip shoe, helmets, gloves, mask will be provided. Provision

of medical kits will be made at site for emergency situation.

9. Mining Depth:

The mining will be up to 3m depth as per the rules of State Mining Department for

mining in river bed. No mining will be carried out during monsoon season.

10. Description of Mineable Area:

The buffer zone of about 7.5 meter has been provided.

There is no place of public utility is situated nearby

In the leased out area rocks are friable boulder conglomerates

The boulders and bajri is compacted in a matrix of sand, silt and clay

The sand, silt and clay are mixed in the matrix and sand cannot be segregated at

commercially viable cost, therefore the entire matrix is considered as waste

In all, five benches are suggested at following level

364 metres level

361 metres level

358 metres level

355 metres level

351 metres level

Hence, first five years working is suggested up to 355 meters level by considering the factor that

mine can be further developed.

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The rehabilitation is suggested only at places where no future mining will be possible and no

abandoned benches.

The bench wise production of the mineral, waste and top soil is given in the 1.8.

Figure 1.8: Showing year wise progressive mineable area.

11. Transportation and Route:

The mined material will be transported by Lorries to the local venders. While

transportation these lorry will be covered by plastic sheet to prevent it dispersion in air.

Care will also be taken to avoid peak traffic hours, school timing and office timing.

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There exist bituminous road about 150 m away from project site. These roads via state

and national highway connect to the major part of district and adjacent states. Figure 1.2

given connectivity of the project site within district and adjoining state.

12. Land details:

As much as 4.7415 Hectares of mining lease has been granted for 5 years for mining of

minor minerals . The whole of the land belongs to private owners. Table 1.3 gives the

details of the leased out area. Kahsra Document is attached as Annexure– I

Table 1.3: The details of the leased out area

S.No Khasra

Number

Area (in

Bighas)

Status Owner of

Land

Kism Mauza

1 61/3 36-00 Kabja samve Private Ober Duom Banjar

Quadeem

Churan

2 172/62/3 1-00 Kabja samve Private Ober Duom

Banjar Quadeem

Churan

4 67/2 3-10 Kabja Samve Private Ober Doum

Banjar Quadeem

Churan

4 68 /2 2-05 Babja Samve Private Ober Doum Banjar

Quadeem

Churan

5 174/63/2 5-14 Kabja Samve Private Ober Doum Banjar

Quadee

Total 48-09 Bighas (4.7415 ha)

13. Reserve: For the calculation of reserve three geographical sections at the interval of

30 meter figure 6 were plotted along N-S grid and E–W grid and slice at intervals of 2

metres were also drawn to get the 3 D view of the deposit.

Total Geological Reserve

The total reserve is divided into two categories

Reserve up to 5 meter is categorized as proved

5 to 10 meter as probable

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Total geological reserve is calculated just on the basis of section lines surface area but

mine ability and other factor i.e are not considered in calculation of geological reserve.

o All the top soil is waste

Total Mineable reserve

For mineable reserve following are important consideration

The buffer zone of 7 meters is left as safe zone

The reserve upto 354 meter by making five benches of 3 x 2 meters from the 364 meters

level. Hence reserve is calculated by considering all possible options. The total

cumulative mineable reserves after considering matrix waste of 40% are shown in the

figure 8.

Figure 1.9: The bench wise reserve & cumulative Reserves; Waste and Cumulative Waste

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14. Development and Production Programs for the First Five Years.

Production of the 1st Year

25900 metric tons of Boulder/stone and 18500 metric tons of bajri/cobbles and pebbles

would be extracted for feeding the crusher.

29800 metric tons of waste of mixed sand, silt and clay would be generated.

Figure 2.0: Material Handling and Production of Minerals (metric tons) during First year

Production of the 2nd Year

26600 metric tons of stones and 19000 metric tons of bajri / pebbles and cobbles will be

produced.

30400 Metric Tons of waste will be generated

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Figure 2.1: Projected total material Handling and Production of Minerals, in metric tons

during second year

Production of the 3nd Year

27300 Metric tons of stones and 19500 metric tons of Bajri/ pebbles and cobbles will be

produced, which will be utilized in the crusher.

31200 Metric tons of waste will be generated.

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Figure 2.2: Projected total material Handling and Production of Minerals, in metric tons

during Third year

Production of the 4th Year

28000 metric tons of stones and 20000 metric tons of bajri / pebbles and cobbles wii be

produced.

32000 Metric tons of waste will be generated.

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Figure 2.3: Projected total material Handling and Production of Minerals, in metric tons

during fourth year.

Production of the 5th Year

28700 metric tons of stones and 20500 metric tons of Bajri / pebbles and cobble will be

produced.

32800 Metric tons of waste will be generated.

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Figure 2.4: Projected total material Handling and Production of Minerals, in metric tons

during fifth year.

Total Material Handling and Production of Minerals, in metric tons during Planned Five

Year

The total mineral mined in planned five year is 390000 metric tons

Total of 136500 metric tons of stones.

97500 metric tons of Bajri / cobbles.

156000 Metric tons of waste.

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